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Requirements and Analysis of Media Security Key Management Protocolsdraft-ietf-sip-media-security-requirements-00.txt
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Abstract
A number of proposals have been published to address the need of
securing media traffic. A summary of the proposals available at that
time is available in the appendix of this document. Different
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The work on media security started a long time ago where the
capability of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) was still at its
infancy. With the increased SIP deployment and the availability of
new SIP extensions and related protocols the need for end-to-end
security was re-evaluated. The procedure of re-evaluating prior
protocol work and design decisions is not an uncommon strategy and,
to some extend, considered necessary protocol work to ensure that the
developed protocols indeed meet the previously envisioned needs for
the users in the Internet.
This document aims to summarize the discussed media security
requirements, i.e., requirements for mechanisms that negotiate keys
and parameters for SRTP. The organization of this document is as
follows: Section 2 introduces terminology, Section 3 provides an
overview about possible call scenarios, Section 4 lists requirements
for media security, Section 5 will provide a clustering of
requirements to certain deployment environments to adress the problem
that there might not be a single solution with universal
applicability. The main part of the document concludes with the
security considerations Section 6, IANA considerations Section 7 and
an acknowledgement section in Section 8. The appendix contains an
overview of the Appendix A lists the available solution proposals and
compares them to the requirements. Appendix D lists non-goals for
this document.
2. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119], with the
important qualification that, unless otherwise stated, these terms
apply to the design of the media security key management protocol,
not its implementation or application.
Additionally, the following items are used in this document:
AOR (Address-of-Record): A SIP or SIPS URI that points to a domain
with a location service that can map the URI to another URI where
the user might be available. Typically, the location service is
populated through registrations. An AOR is frequently thought of
as the "public address" of the user.
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SSRC: The 32-bit value that defines the synchronization source,
used in RTP. These are generally unique, but collisions can
occur.
two-time pad: The use of the same key and the same key index to
encrypt different data. For SRTP, a two-time pad occurs if two
senders are using the same key and the same RTP SSRC value.
PKI Public Key Infrastructure. Throughout this paper, the term PKI
refers to a global PKI.
3. Call Scenarios
The following subsections describe call scenarios with relevance for
media security. These call scenarios pose the most challenge to the
key management for media data in cooperation with SIP signaling.
3.1. Clipping Media Before Signaling Answer
Per the SDP Offer/Answer Model [RFC3264],
"Once the offerer has sent the offer, it MUST be prepared to
receive media for any recvonly streams described by that offer.
It MUST be prepared to send and receive media for any sendrecv
streams in the offer, and send media for any sendonly streams in
the offer (of course, it cannot actually send until the peer
provides an answer with the needed address and port information)."
To meet this requirement with SRTP, the offerer needs to know the
SRTP key for arriving media. If encrypted SRTP media arrives before
the associated SRTP key, the offerer cannot play the media -- causing
clipping.
For key exchange mechanisms that send the answerer's key in SDP, a
SIP provisional response [RFC3261], such as 183 (session progress),
is useful. However, the 183 messages are not reliable unless both
the calling and called end point support PRACK [RFC3262], use TCP
across all SIP proxies, implement Security Preconditions
[I-D.ietf-mmusic-securityprecondition], or the both ends implement
ICE [I-D.ietf-mmusic-ice] and the answerer implements the reliable
provisional response mechanism described in ICE. Unfortunately,
there is not wide deployment of any of these techniques and there is
industry reluctance to set requirements regarding these techniques to
avoid the problem described in this section.
Note that the receipt of an SDP answer is not always sufficient to
allow media to be played to the offerer. Sometimes, the offerer must
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send media in order to open up firewall holes or NAT bindings before
media can be received. In this case a solution that makes the key
available before the SDP answer arrives will not help.
Requirements are created due to early media, in the sense of pre-
offer/answer media, as described in [I-D.barnes-sip-em-ps-req-sol].
Fixes to early media might make the requirements to become obsolete,
but at the time of writing no progress has been accomplished.
3.2. Retargeting and Forking
In SIP, a request sent to a specific AOR but delivered to a different
AOR is called a "retarget". A typical scenario is a "call
forwarding" feature. In Figure 1 Alice sends an Invite in step 1
that is sent to Bob in step 2. Bob responds with a redirect (SIP
response code 3xx) pointing to Carol in step 3. This redirect
typically does not propagate back to Alice but only goes to a proxy
(i.e., the retargeting proxy) that sends the original Invite to Carol
in step 4.
+-----+
|Alice|
+--+--+
|
| Invite (1)
V
+----+----+
| proxy |
++-+-----++
| ^ |
Invite (2) | | | Invite (4)
& redirect (3) | | |
V | V
++-++ ++----+
|Bob| |Carol|
+---+ +-----+
Figure 1: Retargeting
The mechanism used by SIP for identifying the calling party is SIP
Identity [RFC3261]. However, due to SIP retargeting issues
[I-D.peterson-sipping-retarget], SIP Identity can only identify the
calling party (that is, the party that initiated the SIP request).
Some key exchange mechanisms predate SIP Identity and include their
own identity mechanism. However, those built-in identity mechanism
suffer from the same SIP retargeting problem described in the above
draft. Going forward, Connected Identity [RFC4916] allows
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identifying the called party. This is also described as the
'retargeting identity' problem.
In SIP, 'forking' is the delivery of a request to multiple locations.
This happens when a single AOR is registered more than once. An
example of forking is when a user has a desk phone, PC client, and
mobile handset all registered with the same AOR.
+-----+
|Alice|
+--+--+
|
| Invite
V
+-----+-----+
| proxy |
++---------++
| |
Invite | | Invite
V V
+--+--+ +--+--+
|Bob-1| |Bob-2|
+-----+ +-----+
Figure 2: Forking
With forking, both Bob-1 and Bob-2 might send back SDP answers in SIP
responses. Alice will see those intermediate (18x) and final (200)
responses. It is useful for Alice to be able to associate the SIP
response with the incoming media stream. Although this association
can be done with ICE [I-D.ietf-mmusic-ice], and ICE is useful to make
this association with RTP, it is not desirable to require ICE to
accomplish this association.
Forking and retargeting are often used together. For example, a boss
and secretary might have both phones ring and rollover to voice mail
if neither phone is answered.
To maintain security of the media traffic, only the end point that
answers the call should know the SRTP keys for the session. This is
only an issue with public key encryption and not with DH-based
approaches. For key exchange mechanisms that do not provide secure
forking or secure retargeting, one workaround is to re-key
immediately after forking or retargeting (that is, perform a re-
Invite). However, because the originator may not be aware that the
call forked this mechanism requires rekeying immediately after every
session is established. This doubles the Invite messages processed
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by the network.
Retargeting securely introduces a more significant problem. With
retargeting, the actual recipient of the request is not the original
recipient. This means that if the offerer encrypted material (such
as the session key or the SDP) using the original recipient's public
key, the actual recipient will not be able to decrypt that material
because the recipient won't have the original recipient's private
key. In some cases, this is the intended behavior, i.e., you wanted
to establish a secure connection with a specific individual. In
other cases, it is not intended behavior (you want all voice media to
be encrypted, regardless of who answers).
For some forms of key management the calling party needs to know in
advance the certificate or shared secret of the called party, and
retargeting can interfere with this.
Further compounding this problem is a particularity of SIP that when
forking is used, there is always only one final error response
delivered to the sender of the request: the forking proxy is
responsible for choosing which final response to choose in the event
where forking results in multiple final error responses being
received by the forking proxy. This means that if a request is
rejected, say with information that the keying information was
rejected and providing the far end's credentials, it is very possible
that the rejection will never reach the sender. This problem, called
the Heterogeneous Error Response Forking Problem (HERFP)
[I-D.mahy-sipping-herfp-fix], is difficult to solve in SIP.
3.3. Shared Key Conferencing
For efficient scaling, large audio and video conference bridges
operate most efficiently by encrypting the current speaker once and
distributing that stream to the conference attendees. Typically,
inactive participants receive the same streams -- they hear (or see)
the active speaker(s), and the active speakers receive distinct
streams that don't include themselves. In order to maintain
confidentiality of such conferences where listeners share a common
key, all listeners must rekeyed when a listener joins or leaves a
conference.
An important use case for mixers/translators is a conference bridge:
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+----+
A --- 1 --->| |
<-- 2 ----| M |
| I |
B --- 3 --->| X |
<-- 4 ----| E |
| R |
C --- 5 --->| |
<-- 6 ----| |
+----+
Figure 3: Centralized Keying
In the figure above, 1, 3, and 5 are RTP media contributions from
Alice, Bob, and Carol, and 2, 4, and 6 are the RTP flows to those
devices carrying the 'mixed' media.
Several scenarios are possible:
a. Multiple inbound sessions: 1, 3, and 5 are distinct RTP sessions,
b. Multiple outbound sessions: 2, 4, and 6 are distinct RTP
sessions,
c. Single inbound session: 1, 3, and 5 are just different sources
within the same RTP session,
d. Single outbound session: 2, 4, and 6 are different flows of the
same (multi-unicast) RTP session
If there are multiple inbound sessions and multiple outbound sessions
(scenarios a and b), then every keying mechanism behaves as if the
mixer were an end point and can set up a point-to-point secure
session between the participant and the mixer. This is the simplest
situation, but is computationally wasteful, since SRTP processing has
to be done independently for each participant. The use of multiple
inbound sessions (scenario a) doesn't waste computational resources,
though it does consume additional cryptographic context on the mixer
for each participant and has the advantage of non-repudiation of the
originator of the incoming stream.
To support a single outbound session (scenario d), the mixer has to
dictate its encryption key to the participants. Some keying
mechanisms allow the transmitter to determine its own key, and others
allow the offerer to determine the key for the offerer and answerer.
Depending on how the call is established, the offerer might be a
participant (such as a participant dialing into a conference bridge)
or the offerer might be the mixer (such as a conference bridge
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calling a participant). The use of offerless Invites may help some
keying mechanisms reverse the role of offerer/answerer. A
difficulty, however, is knowing a priori if the role should be
reversed for a particular call.
4. Requirements
R1: Negotiation of SRTP keys MUST NOT cause the call setup to fail
in forked and retargeted calls where all end points are
willing to use SRTP, unless the execution of the
authentication and key exchange protocol leads to a failure
(e.g., an unsuccessful authentication attempt).
R2: Even when some end points of a forked or retargeted call are
incapable of using SRTP, the key management protocol MUST
allow the establishment of SRTP associations with SRTP-capable
endpoints and / or RTP associations with non-SRTP-capable
endpoints.
R3: Forked end points MUST NOT know the SRTP key of any call
established with another forked end point.
R4: The media security key management protocol MAY support the
ability to utilize an initially established security context
that was established as part of the first call setup with a
remote end point.
Specialized devices may need to avoid public key operations or
Diffie-Hellman operations as much as possible because of the
computational cost or because of the additional call setup
delay. For example, it can take a second or two to perform a
Diffie-Hellman operation in certain devices. Examples of
these specialized devices would include some handsets,
intelligent SIMs, and PSTN gateways. For the typical case
because a phone call has not yet been established, ancillary
processing cycles can be utilized to perform the PK or DH
operation; for example, in a PSTN gateway the DSP, which is
not yet involved with typical DSP operations, could be used to
perform the calculation, so as to avoid having the central
host processor perform the calculation. Some devices, such as
handsets, and intelligent SIMs do not have such ancillary
processing capability.
R5: The media security key management protocol SHOULD avoid
clipping media before SDP answer without requiring PRACK
[RFC3262].
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R6: The media security key management protocol MUST provide
protection against passive attacks on the media path.
R7: The media security key management protocol MUST provide
protection against passive attacks of a SIP proxy that is
legitimately routing SIP messages.
R8: The media security key management protocol MUST be able to
support perfect forward secrecy (or PFS). The term PFS is the
property that disclosure of the long-term secret keying
material that is used to derive an agreed ephemeral key does
not compromise the secrecy of agreed keys from earlier runs.
R9: The media security key management protocol MUST support
negotiation of SRTP cipher suites without incurring per-
algorithm computational expense. This allows an offer to be
built without incurring computational expense for each
algorithm.
R10: If SRTP keying is performed over the media path, the keying
packets MUST NOT pass the RTP validity check defined in
Appendix A.1 of [RFC3550].
R11: The media security key management protocol that utilizes
expensive cryptographic computations SHOULD offer the ability
to resume previous sessions in an efficient way.
R12: The media security key management protocol MUST NOT require
3rd parties to sign certificates.
This requirement points to the fact that a global PKI cannot
be assumed and opportunistic security approaches should be
considered as part of the solution.
R13: The media security key management protocol SHOULD use
algorithms that allow FIPS 140-2 [FIPS-140-2] certification.
Note that the United States Government can only purchase and
use crypto implementations that have been validated by the
FIPS-140 [FIPS-140-2] process:
"The FIPS-140 standard is applicable to all Federal agencies
that use cryptographic-based security systems to protect
sensitive information in computer and telecommunication
systems, including voice systems. The adoption and use of
this standard is available to private and commercial
organizations."[cryptval]
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Some commercial organizations, such as banks and defense
contractors, also require or prefer equipment which has
validated by the FIPS-140 process.
R14: The media security key management protocol SHOULD be able to
associate the signaling exchange with the media traffic.
For example, if using a Diffie-Hellman keying technique with
security preconditions that forks to 20 end points, the call
initiator would get 20 provisional responses containing 20
signed Diffie-Hellman key pairs. Calculating 20 DH secrets
and validating signatures can be a difficult task depending on
the device capabilities. Hence, in the case of forking, it is
not desirable to perform a DH or PK operation with every
party, but rather only with the party that answers the call
(and incur some media clipping). To do this, the signaling
and media need to be associated so the calling party knows
which key management needs to be completed. This might be
done by using the transport address indicated in the SDP,
although NATs can complicate this association.
Allowing such an association also allows the SDP offerer to
avoid performing CPU-consuming operations (e.g., DH or public
key operations) with attackers that have not seen the
signaling messages.
R15: The media security key management protocol SHOULD allow to
start with RTP and then upgrade to SRTP.
R16: The media security key management protocol SHOULD NOT
introduce new denial of service vulnerabilities.
R17: The media security key management protocol SHOULD require the
adversary to have access to the data as well as the signaling
path for a successful attack to be launched. An adversary
that is located only along the data or only along the
signaling path MUST NOT be able to successfully mount an
attack. A successful attack refers to the ability for the
adversary to obtain keying material to decrypt the SRTP
encrypted media traffic.
R18: If two parties share an authentication infrastructure that has
3rd parties signing certificates, they SHOULD be able to make
use of it.
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R19: The media security key management protocol MUST provide
crypto-agility.
R20: The media security key management protocol MUST protect cipher
suite negotiation against downgrading attacks.
R21: The media security key management protocol MUST allow a SIP
User Agent to negotiate media security parameters for each
individual session.
R22: The media security key management protocol SHOULD allow
establishing SRTP keying between different call signaling
protocols (e.g., between Jabber, SIP, H.323, MGCP)
R23: The media security key management protocol SHOULD support
recording of decrypted media.
Media recording may be realized by an intermediate nodes. An
example for those intermediate nodes are devices, which could
be used in banking applications or for quality monitoring in
call centers. Here, it must be ensured, that the media
security is ensured by the intermediate nodes on the
connections to the involved endpoints as originally
negotiated. The endpoints need to be informed that there is
an intermediate device and need to cooperate. A solution
approach for this is described in [I-D.wing-sipping-srtp-key].
R24: The media security key management protocol SHOULD NOT allow
end users to determine whether their end-to-end interaction is
subject to lawful interception.
R25: The media security key management protocol MUST work when
there are intermediate nodes, terminating or processing media,
between the end points.
R26: The media security key management protocol MUST consider
termination of media security in a PSTN gateway.
A typical case of using media security is the one where two
entities are having a VoIP conversation over IP capable
networks. However, there are cases where the other end of the
communication is not connected to an IP capable network. In
this kind of setting, there needs to be some kind of gateway
at the edge of the IP network which converts the VoIP
conversation to format understood by the other network. An
example of such gateway is a PSTN gateway sitting at the edge
of IP and PSTN networks.
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If media security (e.g., SRTP protection) is employed in this
kind of gateway-setting, then media security and the related
key management needs to be terminated at the gateway. The
other network (e.g., PSTN) may have its own measures to
protect the communication, but this means that from media
security point of view the media security is not employed end-
to-end between the communicating entities.
5. Requirements Classification
An adversary might be located along
1. the media path,
2. the signaling path,
3. the media and the signaling path.
An attacker that can solely be located along the signaling path, and
does not have access to media, is not considered (ref item 2).
Furthermore, it is reasonable to consider the capabilities of the
adversary. We also have different types of adversaries, namely
a. active adversary
b. passive adversary
Note that the adversary model for (a) and (b) also assumes the
attacker being able to control SIP signaling entities.
With respect to item (a) an adversary may need to be active with
regard to the key exchange relevant information traveling along the
data or the signaling path.
Some of the deployment variants of the media security key management
proposals under considerations do not provide protection against man-
in-the-middle adversaries under certain conditions, for example when
SIP signaling entities are compromised, when a global PKI is missing
or pre-shared secrets are not exchanged between the end points prior
to the protocol exchange.
Based on the above-mentioned considerations the following
classifications can be made:
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Class I:
Passive attack on the signaling and the data path sufficient to
reveal the content of the media traffic.
Class II:
Active attack on the signaling path and passive attack on the data
path to reveal the content of the media traffic.
Class III:
Active attack on the signaling and the data path necessary to
reveal the content of the media traffic.
Class IV:
Active attack is required and will be detected by the end points
when adversary tampers with the messages.
For example, SDES falls into Class I since the adversary needs to
learn the SDES key by progressing a signaling message at a SIP proxy
(assuming that the adversary is in control of the SIP proxy).
Subsequent media traffic can be decrypted with the help of the
learned key.
As another example, DTLS-RTP falls into Class III when DTLS is used a
public key based ciphersuite with self-signed certificates and
without SIP Identity. An adversary would have to modify the
fingerprint that is sent along the signaling path and subsequently to
modify the certificates carried in the DTLS handshake that travel
along the media path.
An attack is not successful when SIP Identity is used, the adversary
is not between the SIP UA and its Authentication Service (or at the
Authentication Service), both end points are able to verify the
digital signature (of the SIP Identity) and are able to validate the
corresponding certificates.
6. Security Considerations
This document lists requirements for securing media traffic. As
such, it addresses security throughout the document.
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[RFC4771] Lehtovirta, V., Naslund, M., and K. Norrman, "Integrity
Transform Carrying Roll-Over Counter for the Secure Real-
time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", RFC 4771, January 2007.
[RFC4916] Elwell, J., "Connected Identity in the Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP)", RFC 4916, June 2007.
Appendix A. Overview of Keying Mechanisms
Based on how the SRTP keys are exchanged, each SRTP key exchange
mechanism belongs to one general category:
signaling path: All the keying is carried in the call signaling
(SIP or SDP) path.
media path: All the keying is carried in the SRTP/SRTCP media
path, and no signaling whatsoever is carried in the call
signaling path.
signaling and media path: Parts of the keying are carried in the
SRTP/SRTCP media path, and parts are carried in the call
signaling (SIP or SDP) path.
One of the significant benefits of SRTP over other end-to-end
encryption mechanisms, such as for example IPsec, is that SRTP is
bandwidth efficient and SRTP retains the header of RTP packets.
Bandwidth efficiency is vital for VoIP in many scenarios where access
bandwidth is limited or expensive, and retaining the RTP header is
important for troubleshooting packet loss, delay, and jitter.
Related to SRTP's characteristics is a goal that any SRTP keying
mechanism to also be efficient and not cause additional call setup
delay. Contributors to additional call setup delay include network
or database operations: retrieval of certificates and additional SIP
or media path messages, and computational overhead of establishing
keys or validating certificates.
When examining the choice between keying in the signaling path,
keying in the media path, or keying in both paths, it is important to
realize the media path is generally 'faster' than the SIP signaling
path. The SIP signaling path has computational elements involved
which parse and route SIP messages. The media path, on the other
hand, does not normally have computational elements involved, and
even when computational elements such as firewalls are involved, they
cause very little additional delay. Thus, the media path can be
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useful for exchanging several messages to establish SRTP keys. A
disadvantage of keying over the media path is that interworking
different key exchange requires the interworking function be in the
media path, rather than just in the signaling path; in practice this
involvement is probably unavoidable anyway.
A.1. Signaling Path Keying TechniquesA.1.1. MIKEY-NULL
MIKEY-NULL [RFC3830] has the offerer indicate the SRTP keys for both
directions. The key is sent unencrypted in SDP, which means the SDP
must be encrypted hop-by-hop (e.g., by using TLS (SIPS)) or end-to-
end (e.g., by using S/MIME).
MIKEY-NULL requires one message from offerer to answerer (half a
round trip), and does not add additional media path messages.
A.1.2. MIKEY-PSK
MIKEY-PSK (pre-shared key) [RFC3830] requires that all endpoints
share one common key. MIKEY-PSK has the offerer encrypt the SRTP
keys for both directions using this pre-shared key.
MIKEY-PSK requires one message from offerer to answerer (half a round
trip), and does not add additional media path messages.
A.1.3. MIKEY-RSA
MIKEY-RSA [RFC3830] has the offerer encrypt the keys for both
directions using the intended answerer's public key, which is
obtained from a PKI.
MIKEY-RSA requires one message from offerer to answerer (half a round
trip), and does not add additional media path messages. MIKEY-RSA
requires the offerer to obtain the intended answerer's certificate.
A.1.4. MIKEY-RSA-R
MIKEY-RSA-R An additional mode of key distribution in MIKEY: MIKEY-
RSA-R [RFC4738] is essentially the same as MIKEY-RSA but reverses the
role of the offerer and the answerer with regards to providing the
keys. That is, the answerer encrypts the keys for both directions
using the offerer's public key. Both the offerer and answerer
validate each other's public keys using a PKI. MIKEY-RSA-R also
enables sending certificates in the MIKEY message.
MIKEY-RSA-R requires one message from offerer to answer, and one
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message from answerer to offerer (full round trip), and does not add
additional media path messages. MIKEY-RSA-R requires the offerer
validate the answerer's certificate.
A.1.5. MIKEY-DHSIGN
In MIKEY-DHSIGN [RFC3830] the offerer and answerer derive the key
from a Diffie-Hellman exchange. In order to prevent an active man-
in-the-middle the DH exchange itself is signed using each endpoint's
private key and the associated public keys are validated using a PKI.
MIKEY-DHSIGN requires one message from offerer to answerer, and one
message from answerer to offerer (full round trip), and does not add
additional media path messages. MIKEY-DHSIGN requires the offerer
and answerer to validate each other's certificates. MIKEY-DHSIGN
also enables sending the answerer's certificate in the MIKEY message.
A.1.6. MIKEY-DHHMAC
MIKEY-DHHMAC [RFC4650] uses a pre-shared secret to HMAC the Diffie-
Hellman exchange, essentially combining aspects of MIKEY-PSK with
MIKEY-DHSIGN, but without MIKEY-DHSIGN's need for a PKI to
authenticate the Diffie-Hellman exchange.
MIKEY-DHHMAC requires one message from offerer to answerer, and one
message from answerer to offerer (full round trip), and does not add
additional media path messages.
A.1.7. MIKEY-ECIES and MIKEY-ECMQV (MIKEY-ECC)
ECC Algorithms For MIKEY [I-D.ietf-msec-mikey-ecc] describes how ECC
can be used with MIKEY-RSA (using ECDSA signature) and with MIKEY-
DHSIGN (using a new DH-Group code), and also defines two new ECC-
based algorithms, Elliptic Curve Integrated Encryption Scheme (ECIES)
and Elliptic Curve Menezes-Qu-Vanstone (ECMQV) .
For the purposes of this paper, the ECDSA signature, MIKEY-ECIES, and
MIKEY-ECMQV function exactly like MIKEY-RSA, and the new DH-Group
code function exactly like MIKEY-DHSIGN. Therefore these ECC
mechanisms aren't discussed separately in this paper.
A.1.8. Security Descriptions with SIPS
Security Descriptions [RFC4568] has each side indicate the key it
will use for transmitting SRTP media, and the keys are sent in the
clear in SDP. Security Descriptions relies on hop-by-hop (TLS via
"SIPS:") encryption to protect the keys exchanged in signaling.
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Security Descriptions requires one message from offerer to answerer,
and one message from answerer to offerer (full round trip), and does
not add additional media path messages.
A.1.9. Security Descriptions with S/MIME
This keying mechanism is identical to Appendix A.1.8, except that
rather than protecting the signaling with TLS, the entire SDP is
encrypted with S/MIME.
A.1.10. SDP-DH (expired)
SDP Diffie-Hellman [I-D.baugher-mmusic-sdp-dh] exchanges Diffie-
Hellman messages in the signaling path to establish session keys. To
protect against active man-in-the-middle attacks, the Diffie-Hellman
exchange needs to be protected with S/MIME, SIPS, or SIP-Identity
[RFC4474] and [RFC4474].
SDP-DH requires one message from offerer to answerer, and one message
from answerer to offerer (full round trip), and does not add
additional media path messages.
A.1.11. MIKEYv2 in SDP (expired)
MIKEYv2 [I-D.dondeti-msec-rtpsec-mikeyv2] adds mode negotiation to
MIKEYv1 and removes the time synchronization requirement. It
therefore now takes 2 round-trips to complete. In the first round
trip, the communicating parties learn each other's identities, agree
on a MIKEY mode, crypto algorithm, SRTP policy, and exchanges nonces
for replay protection. In the second round trip, they negotiate
unicast and/or group SRTP context for SRTP and/or SRTCP.
Furthemore, MIKEYv2 also defines an in-band negotiation mode as an
alternative to SDP (see Appendix A.3.3).
A.2. Media Path Keying TechniqueA.2.1. ZRTP
ZRTP [I-D.zimmermann-avt-zrtp] does not exchange information in the
signaling path (although it's possible for endpoints to indicate
support for ZRTP with "a=zrtp" in the initial Offer). In ZRTP the
keys are exchanged entirely in the media path using a Diffie-Hellman
exchange. The advantage to this mechanism is that the signaling
channel is used only for call setup and the media channel is used to
establish an encrypted channel -- much like encryption devices on the
PSTN. ZRTP uses voice authentication of its Diffie-Hellman exchange
by having each person read digits to the other person. Subsequent
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sessions with the same ZRTP endpoint can be authenticated using the
stored hash of the previously negotiated key rather than voice
authentication.
ZRTP uses 4 media path messages (Hello, Commit, DHPart1, and DHPart2)
to establish the SRTP key, and 3 media path confirmation messages.
The first 4 are sent as RTP packets (using RTP header extensions),
and the last 3 are sent in conjunction with SRTP media packets (again
as SRTP header extensions). Note that unencrypted RTP is being
exchanged until the SRTP keys are established.
A.3. Signaling and Media Path Keying TechniquesA.3.1. EKT
EKT [I-D.mcgrew-srtp-ekt] relies on another SRTP key exchange
protocol, such as Security Descriptions or MIKEY, for bootstrapping.
In the initial phase, each member of a conference uses an SRTP key
exchange protocol to establish a common key encryption key (KEK).
Each member may use the KEK to securely transport its SRTP master key
and current SRTP rollover counter (ROC), via RTCP, to the other
participants in the session.
EKT requires the offerer to send some parameters (EKT_Cipher, KEK,
and security parameter index (SPI)) via the bootstrapping protocol
such as Security Descriptions or MIKEY. Each answerer sends an SRTCP
message which contains the answerer's SRTP Master Key, rollover
counter, and the SRTP sequence number. Rekeying is done by sending a
new SRTCP message. For reliable transport, multiple RTCP messages
need to be sent.
A.3.2. DTLS-SRTP
DTLS-SRTP [I-D.mcgrew-tls-srtp] exchanges public key fingerprints in
SDP [I-D.fischl-sipping-media-dtls] and then establishes a DTLS
session over the media channel. The endpoints use the DTLS handshake
to agree on crypto suites and establish SRTP session keys. SRTP
packets are then exchanged between the endpoints.
DTLS-SRTP requires one message from offerer to answerer (half round
trip), and, if the offerer wishes to correlate the SDP answer with
the endpoint, requires one message from answer to offerer (full round
trip). DTLS-SRTP uses 4 media path messages to establish the SRTP
key.
This paper assumes DTLS will use TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA as its
cipher suite, which is the mandatory-to-implement cipher suite in TLS
[RFC4346].
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As defined in Appendix A.1.11, MIKEYv2 also defines an in-band
negotiation mode as an alternative to SDP (see Appendix A.3.3). The
details are not sorted out in the draft yet on what in-band actually
means (i.e., UDP, RTP, RTCP, etc.).
Appendix B. Evaluation Criteria - SIP
This section considers how each keying mechanism interacts with SIP
features.
B.1. Secure Retargeting and Secure Forking
Retargeting and forking of signaling requests is described within
Section 3.2. The following builds upon this description.
The following list compares the behavior of secure forking, answering
association, two-time pads, and secure retargeting for each keying
mechanism.
MIKEY-NULL Secure Forking: No, all AORs see offerer's and
answerer's keys. Answer is associated with media by the SSRC
in MIKEY. Additionally, a two-time pad occurs if two branches
choose the same 32-bit SSRC and transmit SRTP packets.
Secure Retargeting: No, all targets see offerer's and
answerer's keys. Suffers from retargeting identity problem.
MIKEY-PSK
Secure Forking: No, all AORs see offerer's and answerer's keys.
Answer is associated with media by the SSRC in MIKEY. Note
that all AORs must share the same pre-shared key in order for
forking to work at all with MIKEY-PSK. Additionally, a two-
time pad occurs if two branches choose the same 32-bit SSRC and
transmit SRTP packets.
Secure Retargeting: Not secure. For retargeting to work, the
final target must possess the correct PSK. As this is likely
in scenarios were the call is targeted to another device
belonging to the same user (forking), it is very unlikely that
other users will possess that PSK and be able to successfully
answer that call.
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MIKEY-RSA
Secure Forking: No, all AORs see offerer's and answerer's keys.
Answer is associated with media by the SSRC in MIKEY. Note
that all AORs must share the same private key in order for
forking to work at all with MIKEY-RSA. Additionally, a two-
time pad occurs if two branches choose the same 32-bit SSRC and
transmit SRTP packets.
Secure Retargeting: No.
MIKEY-RSA-R
Secure Forking: Yes. Answer is associated with media by the
SSRC in MIKEY.
Secure Retargeting: Yes.
MIKEY-DHSIGN
Secure Forking: Yes, each forked endpoint negotiates unique
keys with the offerer for both directions. Answer is
associated with media by the SSRC in MIKEY.
Secure Retargeting: Yes, each target negotiates unique keys
with the offerer for both directions.
MIKEYv2 in SDP
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
MIKEY-DHHMAC
Secure Forking: Yes, each forked endpoint negotiates unique
keys with the offerer for both directions. Answer is
associated with media by the SSRC in MIKEY.
Secure Retargeting: Yes, each target negotiates unique keys
with the offerer for both directions. Note that for the keys
to be meaningful, it would require the PSK to be the same for
all the potential intermediaries, which would only happen
within a single domain.
Security Descriptions with SIPS
Secure Forking: No. Each forked endpoint sees the offerer's
key. Answer is not associated with media.
Secure Retargeting: No. Each target sees the offerer's key.
Security Descriptions with S/MIME
Secure Forking: No. Each forked endpoint sees the offerer's
key. Answer is not associated with media.
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Secure Retargeting: No. Each target sees the offerer's key.
Suffers from retargeting identity problem.
SDP-DH
Secure Forking: Yes. Each forked endpoint calculates a unique
SRTP key. Answer is not associated with media.
Secure Retargeting: Yes. The final target calculates a unique
SRTP key.
ZRTP
Secure Forking: Yes. Each forked endpoint calculates a unique
SRTP key. As ZRTP isn't signaled in SDP, there is no
association of the answer with media.
Secure Retargeting: Yes. The final target calculates a unique
SRTP key.
EKT
Secure Forking: Inherited from the bootstrapping mechanism (the
specific MIKEY mode or Security Descriptions). Answer is
associated with media by the SPI in the EKT protocol. Answer
is associated with media by the SPI in the EKT protocol.
Secure Retargeting: Inherited from the bootstrapping mechanism
(the specific MIKEY mode or Security Descriptions).
DTLS-SRTP
Secure Forking: Yes. Each forked endpoint calculates a unique
SRTP key. Answer is associated with media by the certificate
fingerprint in signaling and certificate in the media path.
Secure Retargeting: Yes. The final target calculates a unique
SRTP key.
MIKEYv2 Inband
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
B.2. Clipping Media Before SDP Answer
Clipping media before receiving the signaling answer is described
within Section 3.1. The following builds upon this description.
Furthermore, the problem of clipping gets compounded when forking is
used. For example, if using a Diffie-Hellman keying technique with
security preconditions that forks to 20 endpoints, the call initiator
would get 20 provisional responses containing 20 signed Diffie-
Hellman half keys. Calculating 20 DH secrets and validating
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signatures can be a difficult task depending on the device
capabilities.
The following list compares the behavior of clipping before SDP
answer for each keying mechanism.
MIKEY-NULL
Not clipped. The offerer provides the answerer's keys.
MIKEY-PSK
Not clipped. The offerer provides the answerer's keys.
MIKEY-RSA
Not clipped. The offerer provides the answerer's keys.
MIKEY-RSA-R
Clipped. The answer contains the answerer's encryption key.
MIKEY-DHSIGN
Clipped. The answer contains the answerer's Diffie-Hellman
response.
MIKEY-DHHMAC
Clipped. The answer contains the answerer's Diffie-Hellman
response.
MIKEYv2 in SDP
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
Security Descriptions with SIPS
Clipped. The answer contains the answerer's encryption key.
Security Descriptions with S/MIME
Clipped. The answer contains the answerer's encryption key.
SDP-DH
Clipped. The answer contains the answerer's Diffie-Hellman
response.
ZRTP
Not clipped because the session intially uses RTP. While RTP
is flowing, both ends negotiate SRTP keys in the media path and
then switch to using SRTP.
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EKT
Not clipped, as long as the first RTCP packet (containing the
answerer's key) is not lost in transit. The answerer sends its
encryption key in RTCP, which arrives at the same time (or
before) the first SRTP packet encrypted with that key.
Note: RTCP needs to work, in the answerer-to-offerer
direction, before the offerer can decrypt SRTP media.
DTLS-SRTP
Not clipped. Keys are exchanged in the media path without
relying on the signaling path.
MIKEYv2 Inband
Not clipped. Keys are exchanged in the media path without
relying on the signaling path.
B.3. Centralized Keying
Centralized keying is described within Section 3.3. The following
builds upon this description.
The following list describes how each keying mechanism behaves with
centralized keying (scenario d) and rekeying.
MIKEY-NULL
Keying: Yes, if offerer is the mixer. No, if offerer is the
participant (end user).
Rekeying: Yes, via re-Invite
MIKEY-PSK
Keying: Yes, if offerer is the mixer. No, if offerer is the
participant (end user).
Rekeying: Yes, with a re-Invite
MIKEY-RSA
Keying: Yes, if offerer is the mixer. No, if offerer is the
participant (end user).
Rekeying: Yes, with a re-Invite
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MIKEY-RSA-R
Keying: No, if offerer is the mixer. Yes, if offerer is the
participant (end user).
Rekeying: n/a
MIKEY-DHSIGN
Keying: No; a group-key Diffie-Hellman protocol is not
supported.
Rekeying: n/a
MIKEY-DHHMAC
Keying: No; a group-key Diffie-Hellman protocol is not
supported.
Rekeying: n/a
MIKEYv2 in SDP
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
Security Descriptions with SIPS
Keying: Yes, if offerer is the mixer. Yes, if offerer is the
participant.
Rekeying: Yes, with a Re-Invite.
Security Descriptions with S/MIME
Keying: Yes, if offerer is the mixer. Yes, if offerer is the
participant.
Rekeying: Yes, with a Re-Invite.
SDP-DH
Keying: No; a group-key Diffie-Hellman protocol is not
supported.
Rekeying: n/a
ZRTP
Keying: No; a group-key Diffie-Hellman protocol is not
supported.
Rekeying: n/a
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EKT
Keying: Yes. After bootstrapping a KEK using Security
Descriptions or MIKEY, each member originating an SRTP stream
can send its SRTP master key, sequence number and ROC via RTCP.
Rekeying: Yes. EKT supports each sender to transmit its SRTP
master key to the group via RTCP packets. Thus, EKT supports
each originator of an SRTP stream to rekey at any time.
DTLS-SRTP
Keying: Yes, because with the assumed cipher suite,
TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA, each end indicates its SRTP key.
Rekeying: via DTLS in the media path.
MIKEYv2 Inband
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
B.4. SSRC and ROC
In SRTP, a cryptographic context is defined as the SSRC, destination
network address, and destination transport port number. Whereas RTP,
a flow is defined as the destination network address and destination
transport port number. This results in a problem -- how to
communicate the SSRC so that the SSRC can be used for the
cryptographic context.
Two approaches have emerged for this communication. One, used by all
MIKEY modes, is to communicate the SSRCs to the peer in the MIKEY
exchange. Another, used by Security Descriptions, is to use "late
bindng" -- that is, any new packet containing a previously-unseen
SSRC (which arrives at the same destination network address and
destination transport port number) will create a new cryptographic
context. Another approach, common amongst techniques with media-path
SRTP key establishment, is to require a handshake over that media
path before SRTP packets are sent. MIKEY's approach changes RTP's
SSRC collision detection behavior by requiring RTP to pre-establish
the SSRC values for each session.
Another related issue is that SRTP introduces a rollover counter
(ROC), which records how many times the SRTP sequence number has
rolled over. As the sequence number is used for SRTP's default
ciphers, it is important that all endpoints know the value of the
ROC. The ROC starts at 0 at the beginning of a session.
Some keying mechanisms cause a two-time pad to occur if two endpoints
of a forked call have an SSRC collision.
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Note: A proposal has been made to send the ROC value on every Nth
SRTP packet[RFC4771]. This proposal has not yet been incorporated
into this document.
The following list examines handling of SSRC and ROC:
MIKEY-NULL
Each endpoint indicates a set of SSRCs and the ROC for SRTP
packets it transmits.
MIKEY-PSK
Each endpoint indicates a set of SSRCs and the ROC for SRTP
packets it transmits.
MIKEY-RSA
Each endpoint indicates a set of SSRCs and the ROC for SRTP
packets it transmits.
MIKEY-RSA-R
Each endpoint indicates a set of SSRCs and the ROC for SRTP
packets it transmits.
MIKEY-DHSIGN
Each endpoint indicates a set of SSRCs and the ROC for SRTP
packets it transmits.
MIKEY-DHHMAC
Each endpoint indicates a set of SSRCs and the ROC for SRTP
packets it transmits.
MIKEYv2 in SDP
Each endpoint indicates a set of SSRCs and the ROC for SRTP
packets it transmits.
Security Descriptions with SIPS
Neither SSRC nor ROC are signaled. SSRC 'late binding' is
used.
Security Descriptions with S/MIME
Neither SSRC nor ROC are signaled. SSRC 'late binding' is
used.
SDP-DH
Neither SSRC nor ROC are signaled. SSRC 'late binding' is
used.
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ZRTP
Neither SSRC nor ROC are signaled. SSRC 'late binding' is
used.
EKT
The SSRC of the SRTCP packet containing an EKT update
corresponds to the SRTP master key and other parameters within
that packet.
DTLS-SRTP
Neither SSRC nor ROC are signaled. SSRC 'late binding' is
used.
MIKEYv2 Inband
Each endpoint indicates a set of SSRCs and the ROC for SRTP
packets it transmits.
Appendix C. Evaluation Criteria - Security
This section evaluates each keying mechanism on the basis of their
security properties.
C.1. Public Key Infrastructure
There are two aspects of PKI requirements -- one aspect is if PKI is
necessary in order for the mechanism to function at all, the other is
if PKI is used to authenticate a certificate. With interactive
communications it is desirable to avoid fetching certificates that
delay call setup; rather it is preferable to fetch or validate
certificates in such a way that call setup isn't delayed. For
example, a certificate can be validated while the phone is ringing or
can be validated while ring-back tones are being played or even while
the called party is answering the phone and saying "hello".
SRTP key exchange mechanisms that require a global PKI to operate are
gated on the deployment of a common PKI available to both endpoints.
This means that no media security is achievable until such a PKI
exists. For SIP, something like sip-certs [I-D.ietf-sip-certs] might
be used to obtain the certificate of a peer.
Note: Even if SIP CERTs was deployed, the retargeting problem
(Appendix B.1) would still prevent successful deployment of keying
techniques which require the offerer to obtain the actual target's
public key.
The following list compares the PKI requirements of each keying
mechanism, both if a PKI is required for the key exchange itself, and
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if PKI is only used to authenticate the certificate supplied in
signaling.
MIKEY-NULL
PKI not used.
MIKEY-PSK
PKI not used; rather, all endpoints must have some way to
exchange per-endpoint or per-system pre-shared keys.
MIKEY-RSA
The offerer obtains the intended answerer's public key before
initiating the call. This public key is used to encrypt the
SRTP keys. There is no defined mechanism for the offerer to
obtain the answerer's public key, although [I-D.ietf-sip-certs]
might be viable in the future.
MIKEY-RSA-R
The offer contains the offerer's public key. The answerer uses
that public key to encrypt the SRTP keys that will be used by
the offerer and the answerer. A PKI is necessary to validate
the certificates.
MIKEY-DHSIGN
PKI is used to authenticate the public key that is included in
the MIKEY message, by walking the CA trust chain.
MIKEY-DHHMAC
PKI not used; rather, all endpoints must have some way to
exchange per-endpoint or per-system pre-shared keys.
MIKEYv2 in SDP
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
Security Descriptions with SIPS
PKI not used.
Security Descriptions with S/MIME
PKI is needed for S/MIME. The offerer must obtain the intended
target's public key and encrypt their SDP with that key. The
answerer must obtain the offerer's public key and encrypt their
SDP with that key.
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SDP-DH
PKI not used.
ZRTP
PKI not used.
EKT
PKI not used by EKT itself, but might be used by the EKT
bootstrapping keying mechanism (such as certain MIKEY modes).
DTLS-SRTP
Remote party's certificate is sent in media path, and a
fingerprint of the same certificate is sent in the signaling
path.
MIKEYv2 Inband
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
C.2. Perfect Forward Secrecy
In the context of SRTP, Perfect Forward Secrecy is the property that
SRTP session keys that protected a previous session are not
compromised if the static keys belonging to the endpoints are
compromised. That is, if someone were to record your encrypted
session content and later acquires either party's private key, that
encrypted session content would be safe from decryption if your key
exchange mechanism had perfect forward secrecy.
The following list describes how each key exchange mechanism provides
PFS.
MIKEY-NULL
No PFS.
MIKEY-PSK
No PFS.
MIKEY-RSA
No PFS.
MIKEY-RSA-R
No PFS.
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MIKEY-DHSIGN
PFS is provided with the Diffie-Hellman exchange.
MIKEY-DHHMAC
PFS is provided with the Diffie-Hellman exchange.
MIKEYv2 in SDP
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
Security Descriptions with SIPS
No PFS.
Security Descriptions with S/MIME
No PFS.
SDP-DH
PFS is provided with the Diffie-Hellman exchange.
ZRTP
PFS is provided with the Diffie-Hellman exchange.
EKT
No PFS.
DTLS-SRTP
PFS is achieved if the negotiated cipher suite includes an
exponential or discrete-logarithmic key exchange (such as
Diffie-Hellman or Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman [RFC4492]).
MIKEYv2 Inband
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
C.3. Best Effort Encryption
Note: With the ongoing efforts in SDP Capability Negotiation
[I-D.ietf-mmusic-sdp-capability-negotiation], the conclusions
reached in this section may no longer be accurate.
With best effort encryption, SRTP is used with endpoints that support
SRTP, otherwise RTP is used.
SIP needs a backwards-compatible best effort encryption in order for
SRTP to work successfully with SIP retargeting and forking when there
is a mix of forked or retargeted devices that support SRTP and don't
support SRTP.
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Consider the case of Bob, with a phone that only does RTP and a
voice mail system that supports SRTP and RTP. If Alice calls Bob
with an SRTP offer, Bob's RTP-only phone will reject the media
stream (with an empty "m=" line) because Bob's phone doesn't
understand SRTP (RTP/SAVP). Alice's phone will see this rejected
media stream and may terminate the entire call (BYE) and re-
initiate the call as RTP-only, or Alice's phone may decide to
continue with call setup with the SRTP-capable leg (the voice mail
system). If Alice's phone decided to re-initiate the call as RTP-
only, and Bob doesn't answer his phone, Alice will then leave
voice mail using only RTP, rather than SRTP as expected.
Currently, several techniques are commonly considered as candidates
to provide opportunistic encryption:
multipart/alternative
[I-D.jennings-sipping-multipart] describes how to form a
multipart/alternative body part in SIP. The significant issues
with this technique are (1) that multipart MIME is incompatible
with existing SIP proxies, firewalls, Session Border Controllers,
and endpoints and (2) when forking, the Heterogeneous Error
Response Forking Problem (HERFP) [I-D.mahy-sipping-herfp-fix]
causes problems if such non-multipart-capable endpoints were
involved in the forking.
SDP Grouping
A new SDP grouping mechanism (following the idea introduced in
[RFC3388]) has been discussed which would allow a media line to
indicate RTP/AVP and another media line to indicate RTP/SAVP,
allowing non-SRTP-aware endpoints to choose RTP/AVP and SRTP-aware
endpoints to choose RTP/SAVP. As of this writing, this SDP
grouping mechanism has not been published as an Internet Draft.
session attribute
With this technique, the endpoints signal their desire to do SRTP
by signaling RTP (RTP/AVP), and using an attribute ("a=") in the
SDP. This technique is entirely backwards compatible with non-
SRTP-aware endpoints, but doesn't use the RTP/SAVP protocol
registered by SRTP [RFC3711].
Probing
With this technique, the endpoints first establish an RTP session
using RTP (RTP/AVP). The endpoints send probe messages, over the
media path, to determine if the remote endpoint supports their
keying technique.
The following list compares the availability of best effort
encryption for each keying mechanism.
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MIKEY-NULL
No best effort encryption.
MIKEY-PSK
No best effort encryption.
MIKEY-RSA
No best effort encryption.
MIKEY-RSA-R
No best effort encryption.
MIKEY-DHSIGN
No best effort encryption.
MIKEY-DHHMAC
No best effort encryption.
MIKEYv2 in SDP
No best effort encryption.
Security Descriptions with SIPS
No best effort encryption.
Security Descriptions with S/MIME
No best effort encryption.
SDP-DH
No best effort encryption.
ZRTP
Best effort encryption is done by probing (sending RTP messages
with header extensions) or by session attribute (see "a=zrtp",
defined in Section 10 of [I-D.zimmermann-avt-zrtp]). Current
implementations of ZRTP use probing.
EKT
No best effort encryption.
DTLS-SRTP
No best effort encryption.
MIKEY Inband
No best effort encryption.
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It is necessary to allow upgrading SRTP encryption and hash
algorithms, as well as upgrading the cryptographic functions used for
the key exchange mechanism. With SIP's offer/answer model, this can
be computionally expensive because the offer needs to contain all
combinations of the key exchange mechanisms (all MIKEY modes,
Security Descriptions) and all SRTP cryptographic suites (AES-128,
AES-256) and all SRTP cryptographic hash functions (SHA-1, SHA-256)
that the offerer supports. In order to do this, the offerer has to
expend CPU resources to build an offer containing all of this
information which becomes computationally prohibitive.
Thus, it is important to keep the offerer's CPU impact fixed so that
offering multiple new SRTP encryption and hash functions incurs no
additional expense.
The following list describes the CPU effort involved in using each
key exchange technique.
MIKEY-NULL
No significant computaional expense.
MIKEY-PSK
No significant computational expense.
MIKEY-RSA
For each offered SRTP crypto suite, the offerer has to perform
RSA operation to encrypt the TGK
MIKEY-RSA-R
For each offered SRTP crypto suite, the offerer has to perform
public key operation to sign the MIKEY message.
MIKEY-DHSIGN
For each offered SRTP crypto suite, the offerer has to perform
Diffie-Hellman operation, and a public key operation to sign
the Diffie-Hellman output.
MIKEY-DHHMAC
For each offered SRTP crypto suite, the offerer has to perform
Diffie-Hellman operation.
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MIKEYv2 in SDP
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
Security Descriptions with SIPS
No significant computational expense.
Security Descriptions with S/MIME
S/MIME requires the offerer and the answerer to encrypt the SDP
with the other's public key, and to decrypt the received SDP
with their own private key.
SDP-DH
For each offered SRTP crypto suite, the offerer has to perform
a Diffie-Hellman operation.
ZRTP
The offerer has no additional computational expense at all, as
the offer contains no information about ZRTP or might contain
"a=zrtp".
EKT
The offerer's Computational expense depends entirely on the EKT
bootstrapping mechanism selected (one or more MIKEY modes or
Security Descriptions).
DTLS-SRTP
The offerer has no additional computational expense at all, as
the offer contains only a fingerprint of the certificate that
will be presented in the DTLS exchange.
MIKEYv2 Inband
The behavior will depend on which mode is picked.
Appendix D. Out-of-Scope
Discussions concluded that key management for shared-key encryption
of conferencing is outside the scope of this document. As the
priority is point-to-point unicast SRTP session keying, resolving
shared-key SRTP session keying is deferred to later and left as an
item for future investigations.
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